Synonyms:
perchance, by_chance
Meaning: through chance, "To sleep, perchance to dream.."
Synonyms:
possibly, perchance, perhaps, maybe, mayhap, peradventure
Meaning: by chance; "perhaps she will call tomorrow"; "we may possibly run into them at the concert"; "it may peradventure be thought that there never was such a time"
Usage examples
"Bumpo, some one might turn thee into a white prince perchance."
If this be done, perchance the orphan will not be fatherless all his days."
I might, perchance, escape it for that time, but what assurance had I that I was not ultimately destined to such an end?
"If perchance thou permittest the staff of justice to swerve, let it be not by the weight of a gift, but by that of mercy.
Perchance indeed by violence of palsy Some one has been thus wholly turned awry; But I ne'er saw it, nor believe it can be.
Leave me to speak, because I have conceived That which thou wishest; for they might disdain Perchance, since they were Greeks, discourse of thine."
"Divinely led by love's bright flame, To this lone temple's shrine we come; And as yon beacon meets our eye, To dream, perchance, of days gone by."
This must inevitably happen if, after the rider has fired, among the score or so of passing bullets, one of them, perchance, took a peculiar fancy for a vital organ of his horse.
Partly his eyes and partly his instinct told him that not six paces behind him there must be a door, and if Heaven pleased it should be unlocked, behind it they must look for shelter. It even crossed his mind in that second of crowding, galloping thought, that perchance the room might be occupied.